Cell phone plans

Cell phone plans here are screwy. I wish it were more like the India ones:
- No charge on incoming calls. Here they charge for airtime -- they don't care if its incoming or outgoing
- SMSes are cheap. Here an SMS costs about a minute of talke time! WTF?! I so miss texting.

The long term contracts are weird, but I can see the sense in it. Another feature thats commendable here is the apparent lack of roaming charges within the US. Also no extra charges for calling any phone in the US.

Even better -- calling someone on your provider's n/w is free -- but I guess thats a feature of my scheme.

Data plans here are expensive. Not sure why.

veliath